Unity 4.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Time for action – make the ball re-appear

1. Double-click on the DisappearMe Script. MonoDevelop will open up and display the Script.
2. Change the word false to true.
3. Save the Script.
4. Click on the Play button to test your game.

Your Script should look like this:

function Update () {
   renderer.enabled = true;
}

Bingo! The Ball started out invisible and then magically appeared. That means that the Mesh Renderer component and the renderer that we referred to in our Script are the same thing. And the checkbox in the Inspector panel is actually the enabled property in checkbox form—instead of true and false, it shows us checked and unchecked states! In fact, you can even keep an eye on the checkbox when you click on Play and see it change states. That tingling ...